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Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is an expanding party.

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is an expanding party as my colleague, Deputy Pat Casey knows, and the members of the party need more time.

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What about Deputy Stephen Donnelly?

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I commend and compliment Fianna Fáil for bringing forward the Bill. It is very important. Every day of the week, we see ordinary businesses that help in the local communities. They want to assist and might have family members going to a particular school or have long been associated with a school. It is very important when the tendering process is going on that we give them a chance...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: He has said I am alright for one minute. I am just making the point. We need to re-evaluate this year. We have big contracts here. The French are very creative. They divide them up into small segments and they get under these EU rules. We need to take off the blinkers. It is not all wonderful in Europe. We should show them we care about our local businesses. They pay their rates and...

National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I salute the work of an Teachta Brophy in introducing this Bill. As he said on First Stage, this "small, compact Bill [proposes that we] should have a national day marked in the calendar to commemorate the greatest tragedy that has ever befallen the country". The Deputy is proposing to designate the second Sunday in May gach bliain as the annual Famine commemoration day. The Great Hunger...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: My colleague, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, and many other Deputies raised the delays in GLAS payments in the House a few weeks ago. Huge fines, penalties and levies are imposed on people who cannot pay their taxes. It was not good enough for the Minister, Deputy Creed, to say in this week's Irish Farmers Journalthat these delays have been caused by technical hitches. He told Deputy Healy-Rae a...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We cannot find them.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is all they have. They are not on any other site.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is appropriate for accounting companies (details supplied) to advertise the facilitation of payment of 0% tax rates to foreign companies that may wish to do business here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8659/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide all of the information used in the assessment of primary schools in County Tipperary under the new DEIS programme; the reason the five primary schools in Tipperary town were excluded from the programme; if these schools can be re-examined for inclusion under the DEIS programme in view of the level of disadvantage in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of efforts to prevent raw sewage being pumped into rivers across the State and to address the associated public health risks; his views on the fact that the State has failed to provide wastewater treatment facilities in 38 areas across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8601/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the services available for children with speech and language difficulties in County Tipperary; if speech and language therapy drop-in clinics are available in County Tipperary for parents that are concerned about whether their children require speech and language therapy similar to the service available in other parts of the country (details supplied); if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 438. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of all funding provided for the construction of a national paediatric hospital since 2006, including the proposed Mater Hospital site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (21 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 633. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the overall figure, not individualised by company, for Enterprise Ireland funding made available each year to the three remaining processors in the poultry sector (details supplied) since 2003; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8314/17]

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputy McGuinness, his team and the officials for their work. I shiver when I see a report or inquiry, with 71 recommendations - seven recommendations would be enough for action, and if we acted on five, three or four we would be doing all right. The Association of British Insurance, ABI, which represents the views of the UK's insurance industry, stated that the average...

Topical Issue Debate: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (16 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing us to raise this Topical Issue. Thanks to the Department's decision, children in Tipperary town must continue to suffer unacceptable levels of educational deprivation. They are to be denied the extra assistance that comes with DEIS status, for example, school breakfast and literacy programmes. They live in areas with the highest level of...

Topical Issue Debate: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (16 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have been there once or twice.

Topical Issue Debate: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (16 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not and could not be.